The goal of the present study was to examine convergent and divergent validity among multiple informants (peers, teachers, child self-reports, observers, and parents) for childhood anxious solitude (solitary behavior due to social anxiety), unsociabi...

It was hypothesized that the relation between early anxious solitude and subsequent peer relations would be moderated by early relational (maternal sensitivity) and individual factors (child school readiness). Participants were 1364 children from the...